Lego car powered by air

[Jazzy]

An air-powered car built of Lego, that can reach a top speed of around 20km/h (12mph) has hit the roads of Melbourne.

It was built by an Australian entrepreneur and a Romanian technologist who used more than 500,000 pieces of Lego to complete the car.

The crowd-funded project began with a tweet asking people to invest in an "awesome" start-up.

Four air-powered engines and 256 pistons, all built of Lego bricks, enable the car to move.

Everything bar the wheels is made from Lego.

Co-founder Steve Sammartino told the BBC that he was "neither a car enthusiast nor a Lego enthusiast".

"What I am is a technology enthusiast and I wanted to show what is possible when you crowd-fund an idea and use young talented people," he said.

"I met this crazy Romanian teenager on the web and we came up with the idea but I knew that I couldn't afford to fund it," he added.

So he sent out a late-night tweet which read: "Anyone interested in investing $500 - $1,000 in a project which is awesome and a world first tweet me. Need about 20 participants."

Forty Australians offered cash and the Super Awesome Micro project, as it is dubbed, was born.

It took 18 months and a lot more money to build, said Mr Sammartino.

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Impressive but pretty useless, no?

 

[Evil Eye]

I really want to know how that engine works.

 

[Jazzy]

I really want to know how that engine works.

Four air-powered engines and 256 pistons, all built of Lego bricks, enable the car to move.

 

[Raven]

12 mph? imagine getting stuck behind that!!!!

 

[Nebulous]

Pretty cool! But it would probably fall apart sooner or later.

 

[Evil Eye]

Four air-powered engines and 256 pistons, all built of Lego bricks, enable the car to move.

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Yeah... but that doesn't really explain anything

12 mph? imagine getting stuck behind that!!!!